Our customer originally purchased this graded at a 4.0 (VG). Unfortunately, with the staples being 1/4" around the front of the comic, a colour breaking crease had developed where the cover had been folded back for the original owner to read all about Batman's latest adventures. Except for a few rub marks, the colours were still pretty vibrant and the comic was still, for the most part, in pretty good condition, with just a small amount of stacking dirt, a handful of light creases, finger bends, shallow indentations and a slight waviness.
We corrected all that was possible, and despite the readers crease, the comic came back at a respectable 5.5 grade.
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Thanks to Craig Moss for allowing us to show his photograph of the finished graded comic .